Random quote: "We are not asking for a complete opening of NATO’s door, just a small enough opening so that Lithuania can get through it." Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius, speaking to journalists in July, 1998 - (Added by: Tomas Baranauskas)

9. It is certain, however, that the Langobards were afterwards so called on account of the length of their beards untouched by the knife, whereas at first they had been called Winnili; for according to their language "lang" means " long" and " bart " "beard." Wotan indeed, whom by adding a letter they called Godan is he who among the Romans is called Mercury, and he is worshiped by all the peoples of Germany as a god, though he is deemed to have existed, not about these times, but long before, and not in Germany, but in Greece.